Warham's advice to her replacement, and anyone else who wants to have a pleasant experience at work: "Just be kind. She will be replaced by Laurie Furman, an eight-year business office employee, who's been training for the move for a month. "But it was a blessing to have her here as long as we did." "Marcia will be missed greatly by the staff and the community," said Dispatch General Manager Karen Alvord. "We've always tried to put out the best product we can." she said. While a lot has changed in the business, this type of local news remains important. "I've made lasting friendships with people who came in with information" about their garden club events, weddings or rummage sales.
Those awards are right up on my wall."īut plaques haven't been her most important rewards, she said. She said winning Oneida Rotary's Bill Fariel Award and its Roses to the Living honor were "very special to me. Over the years, the community has recognized Warham for her work at The Dispatch. Warham is a lay leader there she speaks every Sunday, serves on several church committees and helps the minister "whenever I can." The congregation of Christ Church-United Methodist in Sherrill can also expect to see more of her. "I might even start volunteering there," she said. She said she plans to visit her sons, Paul and Steven, in Brooklyn more often and spend more time at Oneida Healthcare's Extended Care Facility, where her parents, Ray and Marilyn Green, are residents. If a job needs doing, like inserting, we all pitch in," she said.īut retirement will give her more time to spend with her real family, especially her husband, Rick, who retired from his job as a BOCES bus mechanic last year. So many reporters, copy editors and ad people have passed through The Dispatch, it's hard to remember them all, she said, but the workers have always been like a family.
"An obituary is the last statement on a person, and it's important we do our absolute best to see that it's done well," she said.ĭuring her career she estimates eight editors have headed the newsroom, and "at least ten" publishers have run The Dispatch, which has since moved to its Broad Street location. Then, as now, Warham is in charge of the events calendar, wedding and engagement announcements, letters to the editor, school honor rolls, local news briefs, and - most notably - obituaries. She quickly realized that she didn't like selling, and after a couple of years moved into the News Department. There were more than 50 employees and an army of youth and adult carriers who fanned out every day from the Dispatch Building on Messenger Place (behind the spot now occupied by the Zeller Building).īut that, too, only lasted a couple of years before Warham moved to the Classified Department. The Dispatch presses were busy with job printing. Oneida and Canastota Directory: Including Oneida Castle and Durhamville. Includes history of townships, statistics and directory of county businesses and farms and the people who work for them. Gazetteer and Business Directory of Madison County, N.Y., for 1868-9.Ĭompiled and published by Hamilton Child. Syracuse: Journal Office, 1868. (with Rome Observer and Oneida-Madison Pennysaver)ġ January 2014 – 31 March 2014 Chittenango NewspapersĤ March 1846-23 February 1848 Morrisville Newspapersģ January 1877-25 December 1878 Oneida and Area Directories (weekly, available online at Digital Archives of the Oneida Public Library)
(available online at Digital Archives of the Oneida Public Library) Oneida Telegraph, 25 October 1851-9 October 1852. The library’s digitized newspaper holdings currently include: Several 19th-century Oneida newspapers in the OPL’s Microfilm Collection have been digitized by Advantage Preservation and posted online with sophisticated search capabilities at the Digital Archives of the Oneida Public Library, thanks to the generosity of the Friends of Oneida Public Library. LOCAL HISTORY ROOM MICROFILM COLLECTION Oneida Newspapers
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